The Battle of Dresden (26–27 August 1813) was a major engagement of the Napoleonic Wars. The battle took place around the city of Dresden in modern-day Germany. With the recent addition of Austria, the Sixth Coalition felt emboldened in their …

Battle of Dresden, (Aug. 26–27, 1813), Napoleon’s last major victory in Germany. It was fought on the outskirts of the Saxon capital of Dresden, between Napoleon’s 120,000 troops and 170,000 Austrians, Prussians, and Russians under Prince Karl Philipp Schwarzenberg.

While Marshal Gouvion Saint-Cyr held off the Allies at Dresden, Napoleon force-marched three corps to the rescue. The next day, the emperor counter­attacked. It would prove to be his last significant triumph.

Allied Order-of-Battle at Dresden: 26 - 27 August 1813. By Stephen Millar. The two-day battle of Dresden was the final large-scale victory of Napoleon’s military career. It came in the late summer of the 1813 Campaign, following the ten-week Armistice of Poischwitz.

2009年11月9日 · On the night of February 13, hundreds of RAF bombers descended on Dresden in two waves, dropping their lethal cargo indiscriminately over the city. The city’s air defenses were so weak that...

Map of Battle of Dresden, the second largest battle of the Napoleonic Wars. The first phase: Allies' attacks. In the very beginning only St.Cyr's XIV Army Corps of four divisions (Claparede, Berthezene, Razout and Pajol) defended Dresden.

2013年8月30日 · Battle of Dresden 26-27 August 1813 The Army of Bohemia attacked Dresden on the morning of 26 August. Fighting died down by noon, by when the French had been pushed back to the redoubts.

August 26-27, 1813, Dresden, capital of Saxony, on the banks of the Elbe river (now in the German state of Saxony). Involved forces French army (40,000 then 120,000 men) under the command of Marshal Laurent de Gouvion-Saint-Cyr, then Emperor Napoleon I.

The Battle of Dresden was fought on 26–27 August 1813 around Dresden, Germany, resulting in a French victory under Napoleon against forces of the Sixth Coalition of Austrians, Russians and Prussians under Field Marshal Schwartzenberg.

The Battle of Dresden was fought August 26-27 near the city of Dresden in Germany. In Aug., 1813, when the war between Napoleon and the allies, after a short truce, broke out afresh, Napoleon gathered his main army and attempted to strike and defeat his enemies separately before they could consolidate their forces and overwhelm him with ...